Students Honor Veterans

By Hope Public Schools, 03/31/21 5:47 PM

Hope High School cadets of the HHS Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps unit

commemorated the infamous Bataan Death March recently with a 14.2-mile walk at Camp Robinson

Army National Guard Post in Little Rock. The HHS unit was the lead contingent for four schools

including the Conway Army JROTC, Fort Smith Northside Army JROTC and Harrisburg Army JROTC

units that memorialized the World War II forced 65 mile march of over 75,000 U.S. and Philippino

troops captured after the fall of the island of Luzon in April, 1942. – Hope Public Schools